7. Identity
With shades of Agatha Christie, this 2003 thriller begins with talk on the discovered journal of a serial killer named Malcom Rivers who sits on death row. The movie then cuts to a small motel in Arizona where ten people are stranded by a massive storm: a limo driver, a faded actress, a cop transporting a serial killer, a prostitute, a pair of newlyweds and a couple with their mute son. Soon, one by one, each guest is murdered. It turns out that the “motel” is really the mind of Malcom Rivers, the killer suffering from alternate personalities and the “killings” are his psychiatrist’s method of trying to cut out the murderous persona.
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The movie bounces from the real world to this one as Ed, the cop turned limo driver, is sent to kill the murderous persona, represented by the serial killer. They end up shooting one another, leaving only the kind-hearted prostitute Paris; the psychiatrist declares that Rivers is no longer a danger and he’s sentenced to a mental institution. But in the ride there, we see inside the mind of Rivers that it was the seemingly kind mute boy who was truly the murderous persona, killing the only survivors. With only this personality left, Rivers overpowers and kills his guards, wrecks the ambulance and runs off into the night, more dangerous than ever before. A wild end to a movie where you’re never sure who is what.
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